Dhaka: Bangladesh on Tuesday recorded the highest single-day fatality and case numbers of COVID-19, according to the official figures.
The country recorded 53 deaths from the virus in the last 24 hours, the daily record since the first reported death on March 18, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
The total live casualties stand at 1,262 with the new ones while the country on Tuesday also detected the highest one-day infections with 3,862 new cases, surging the total figure to 94,481.
Additional Director General of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) Prof Dr Nasima Sultana came up with the disclosure at its daily health bulletin on Tuesday.
In the last 24 hours, 61 coronavirus testing laboratories across the country tested 17,214 samples, she added.
The detection rate of new patients on Tuesday has been recorded at 22.44 percent.
Across the country 2,237 more patients made recovery, she said adding that so far 36,264 people have recovered from the disease.
Against the total number of detected cases, the recovery rate is 38.38 percent and the mortality rate is 1.34 percent in the country.
Among the deceased, 47 were male and six were female, said Dr Nasima.
“Their age-based analysis says, one was aged between 11 and 20 years, three were aged between 21 and 30 years, two between 31 and 40, nine between 41 and 50 years, 19 between 51 and 60, 10 between 61 and 70, eight between 71 and 80 and another was aged between 81 and 90 years,” she said.
Thirty patients died in Dhaka division, 14 in Chattogram division, four in Rajshahi division, three in Khulna division, one in Barishal division and another died in Mymensingh division.
“Thirty four people died in hospitals across the country, 18 died at home and another was declared dead upon arrival at hospital,” she added.
Besides, 635 more people were taken to isolation in the last 24 hours while 359 were released and currently, 10,302 people are in isolation.
During the same period, another 3,421 people were home and institutionally quarantined and 2,544 were released. At present 62,546 people are quarantined across the country.
Bangladesh confirmed its first coronavirus cases on March 8 and the first death on March 18.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China in December last year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
Global situation
The Covid-19 pandemic has claimed over 436,322 lives globally while the number of confirmed cases has gone up to 8,015,053 as of Tuesday morning, according to the Centre for System Science and Engineering of the Johns Hopkins University.
According to JHU data, Brazil and Russia have come up to the second and the third positions after the US with 888,271 and 536,484 confirmed coronavirus cases as of Tuesday.
Meanwhile, South Asian country India has come up to the fourth position after Russia with 332,424 confirmed Covid-19 cases. The country has so far reported 9,529 deaths.
On the other hand, Brazil counted the second highest deaths after the US as it reported 43,959 deaths from the virus till the date.
Among the countries, the US has been the worst-hit with the highest recorded deaths of 116,135 patients and about 2,113,372 confirmed cases.
In the US, New York State alone counted 30,856 deaths till the date.
The UK has the third-highest death toll at 41,821, followed by Italy with 34,371, France 29,439 and Spain 27,136, according to Johns Hopkins University.
Coronavirus cases were first reported in China December last year.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the coronavirus crisis a pandemic on March 11.
